vol VII: Notes
2017
Notes
Sunday 29 October 2017 - Saturday 4 November 2017
[Notebook: DB 82: Life and Death]
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Sunday 29 October 2017
The Journal of Power Institutions of Post Soviet Republics PIPSS: Dedovshchina : From Military to Society
Monday 30 October 2017
A tweetstory: Scientific theology in 100 tweets: 1. The Universe is divine, that is identical to God
StCt: Therefore all our experience is experience of God. This lays the foundation for evidence based scientific theology
Tuesday 31 October 2017
Get excited, emit a particle. This applies both in quantum field theory and human action: mental excitement (attention) is the prelude to action and the degree of excitement for success depends on the difficulty of the action. The most difficult are when life is at stake. Would I give my life for scientific theology? Most likely to be counterproductive because at this stage it would hinder development . . ..
StCt_003: Christianity is built on a series of hypotheses that form a Salvation History. Scientific theology can test these hypotheses against the evidence.
Revolution and Thermidor. Thermidorian Reaction - Wikipedia, Leon Trotsky: The Revolution Betrayed [internet]
Trotsky The Revolution Betrayed Trotsky
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Did Socrates say "the secret to change is to focus all you energy, not on fighting the old, but in building the new." No, See Dan Millman.
Educating the heart.
Trotsky, Introduction: 'If you remember that the task of socialism is to create a classless society based upon solidarity and harmonious satisfaction of all needs, there is not yet a hint of socialism in the Soviet Union.'
The 'classless society' is an expression of human symmetry, but, in stalinist hands this symmetry is taken to mean unbounded service to the party, an embodiment of the oligarchs. What is overlooked is that symmetries are all in fact broken, so that we all share human symmetry while we are all different, and in a free society the difference is bounded by the exclusion of violence, that is rape (forcefully taking) in all its forms. Stalin, of course, raped as much as he could and died in power.
Perhaps one of the greatest social evils we face is the partisan conflict between right and left, between the owners of capital and the owners of labour. Since they are two sides of one system, the better solution is to combine them as more enlightened populations understand and implement. The peace model has to tackle this question. This is related to the dichotomy between the dignity of directing and managing and the dignity of working which leads to the contrast between the robes of the rulers and the rags of the workers. Peace is the product of well informed politics.
Secrecy and conflict.
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Trotsky 1: iii: 'The bureaucracy spurs on the workers with all its might, but is unable to make proper use of the labour power.' We need educated, trained community cooperation to work toward optimum productivity of our work, where productivity ultimately means the personal satisfaction of producers and consumers, something I can only manage in small groups.
'To the low standard of labour corresponds a low national income, and consequently a low standard of life for the masses of the people.'
'The historic responsibility for this situation lies, of course, upon Russia's black and heavy past, her heritage of darkness and poverty. . . . the undying service of the Soviet regime lies in its intense and successful struggle with Russia's thousand-year-old backwardness.'
Trotsky 2: Economic Growth and the Zigzags of the leadership.
2, i: 'Military communism was, in essence, the systematic regulation of consumption in a besieged fortress.'
The enemy of truth is the secrecy which serves to hide the contradictions incident in falsehood. So motivated actors in the political system decide their plans in secrecy. Secrecy is an epistemological error [for those charged with public management].
Fear of change is historically well founded [in long periods of social stability]. On the other hand survival requires that we meet a changing environment with changing behaviours [just like walking in the park] and we must have the courage to make the change and not be frozen in fear of imagined detrimental consequences.
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Sovietization: a sad comedy of errors driven by fanciful ideology with no real connection to the real needs and behaviour of people.
Trotsky 3: i: 'Marxism is saturated with the optimism of progress, and that alone, by the way, makes it irreconcilably opposed to religion.' By which he means the other religion. Christianity is in a way the foundation of Marxism, a utopian story.
Wednesday 1 November 2017
A theory of peace is in effect a theory of government and the role of theology in this theory is to couple government to the reality of humanity, which arises from energy, variation and selection. We seek ways to learn from the organization of the human body how to govern a population of humans. Quantum mechanically, bonding is a product of sharing and the same works for us. My security arises because the taxpayers are supporting me through a pension and all the associated services. The social realization of this lies in the universal wage.
'God' is the creator an controller, ie governor so applied theology is government. Marx missed out on an important feature of government by seeing that religion is the opium of the people. In fact not all religion is opium, only false religion, which is more or less equivalent to ancient religion based on ancient theology which is very closely linked to monarchy, ie the God King or Queen.
Trotsky 4: iv: 'The Soviet administration personnel, is, as a general rule, far less equal to the administrative tasks than the worker.' The Russian administration was guided by the theology of the Orthodox Church which reached its monarchist apogee in effect in Stalin. A similar phenomenon in China.
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The last three chapters of [my] book are the bond between theory and policy, full of devilish details which we hope to control by identifying the symmetries behind them.
Gravitation, universal communication, is the fundamental symmetry in the human realm called love, explained by the quantum / network mechanics of communication theory = {shannon, turing, cantor, gödel}.
A good PhD must be based on a practical outcome, and interface between waves (process) and particles (messages).
Trotsky: 'The name of the social guild which holds back and paralyzes all the guilds of the Soviet economy is — the bureaucracy.
Chapter 5: The Soviet Thermidor
Hilbert oscillations in the body politic - two steps forward and one step back, fluctuating between complexification and simplification [often in politics, by killing].
'The consecutive stages of the great French Revolution, during its rise and fall alike, demonstrates no less convincingly that the strength of the "leaders" and "heroes" that replace each other consisted primarily in their correspondence to the character of those classes and strata that supported them. Only this correspondence, and not any irrelevant superiorities whatever, permitted each of them to place the impress of his personality upon a certain historic period. In the successive supremacy of Mirabeau, Brissot, Robespierre, Barras and Bonaparte there is an obedience to objective law incomparably more effective than the special traits of the historic protagonists themselves.
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The book has to contribute to the global debate on governance and inspire a direction for the Nobel peace prize [breathing = rotation].
The perfect revolution has no Thermidor [ie it is a perfectly damped transient], but to achieve this one must have a comprehensive plan that takes every possible event into consideration, like the software of a self diving car [ideal change takes place reversibly at constant entropy, no disruption or creation, simply reorganization, new coding.]
Drugs, competition, putting oneself under pressure, ie testing.
Trotsky; 'The ebb of the "plebeian prince" made room for a flood of pusillanimity and careerism. The new commanding caste rose to its place on this wave, which might have been expected.'
Can we say that Catholicism (monarchy) betrays humanity by homongenization?
'A secondary figure before the masses and in the events of the revolution, Stalin revealed himself as the indubitable leader of the Thermidorean bureaucracy, the first in its midst.'
Lenin: [?] 'The more universal becomes the very fulfilment of the functions of state power, the less need is there of this power' [sounds like privatization but resulted in totalitarianism] The withering of the state is a bit like removing the central nervous system from an animal. It is fatal.
The Soviet castle in the air is just as self contradictory as the Catholic castle [largely ignoring the reality of humanity].
Trotsky 6: iv The Social Physiognomy of the Ruling Stratum
Soviet bureaucracy - deep state - invisible divinities. The administrative network grows itself by appointing more positions which must be paid for by taxing the people administered. We seek a sweet spot for administration and look for it in the structure of the observable world.
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Trotsky: 'Freedom from control inevitably entails abuse of office, including pecuniary malfeasance.'
7: i: 'The forty million Soviet families remain in their overwhelming majority nests of medievalism, female slavery and hysteria, daily humiliation of children, feminine and childish superstition. We may permit ourselves no illusions on this account. For that very reason, the consecutive changes in the approach to the problem of the family in the Soviet Union best of all characterize the actual nature of Soviet society and the evolution of the ruling stratum.'
Depoliticize the book? Which deprives it of passion and marketability. Advocacy by quality of product rather than promotion, but one must state the problem to justify the solution and the Catholic problem for me was a source of personal pain in the form of contradiction or cognitive dissonance [and the rejection of my 'vocation'].
Peaceful development proceeds in steps by evolution rather than catastrophically by revolution, but peace is not always guaranteed but we can increase its probability by careful design, bearing in mind possible outliers like the US Trump administration.
Trotsky 8: iii: 'In the matter of military equipment as a whole, the old task is still there: to catch up as soon as possible to the standard of the future enemy.'
'The sorest spot in the army, paradoxical as it may seem, is the horse. . . . a present day army needs . . . one horse for every three soldiers.'
Many revolutionaries are like hippies making up the rules of a commune.
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What are the political consequences of a divine world? Power comes from within, not above.
The book is running a bit ragged. Still not clear about the fundamental organizing principle [in dynamics fixed points are functions of mappings].
StCt004: The Christian God lives, it is pure activity, absolutely simple. Mathematical fixed point theory establishes that dynamic systems have fixed points. [148]
StCt005: The world we observe comprises the fixed points of the divine dynamics. [71]
Thursday 2 November 2017
Christianity built its brand on love god, love your neigbour. The injunction is good, the definition of neighbour is good. What we are trying to change is the meaning of God, and so broaden the meaning of love god to mean love every creature, since we are all equally divine.
Trotsky, Lenin, Stalin and co: religion is a medium of social engineering, a movement called Marxism some of whose ideas have been implemented in idiosyncratic ways. Marxism - Wikipedia, Marxism-Leninism - Wikipedia
Gessen page 145; 'The Soviet state was based on punishment. Gessen: The Future is History
Friday 3 November 2017
The effect of power is to narrow the search for solutions to problems by reducing the entropy of the society to the entropy of an oligarchy or monarch. This
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reduces the probability of survival of the community.
The momentum operator pˆ is the generator of infinitesimal translations in space. The Hamiltonian operator, Ĥ is the generator of infinitesimal translations in time. Anonymous: Transformations and symmetries in quantum mechanics
Saturday 4 November 2017
What we want in the book is a clear expression of the problem targeted and the solution proposed. God is not one, and as a consequence that people are not one because we all carry an image of God in our operating system. What we seek is a paradigm to unify the basic visions of God so we are all on the same page. Prothero: God is Not One
Thirst for knowledge, many of us love new things, see the fashion industry. But many like to stick to the old so we have a moving distribution in the body politic. We relax when we find a comfortable state, a component in the design of dwellings and furniture.
The dimension of entropy: energy per degree S = ∫ dQ/T
We are trying to make a transfinite entropy scale which gives high entropy (and so high information) to more spiritual (complex) structures and low for simple simple physical structures like a gas. This runs against the statistical mechanical belief that the maximum entropy is to be found in gases (?) [at vey low temperature]. Out of my depth here but something is on the tip of my tongue if we measure entropy by bandwidth per particle. I's love to b able to make sense of this so reading Cercignani on Boltzmann again. Cercignani: Ludwig Boltzmann: The Man Who Trusted Atoms, Third law of thermodynamics - Wikipedia
